Saigon, the city is located in the Mekong Delta of the Indochina Peninsula, the French spent half a century, to create this riverside city prosperous, its prosperity is second to none in Southeast Asian metropolises, located on both sides of the Saigon River A variety of French architecture, revealing a strong colonial style.

When the Vietnamese solitaire on the colorful cruise on the Mekong River turns to a quiet tune, the traces of the practical influence of French culture and the historical influence of ancient Chinese culture are intertwined, and the Wu Ge culture is intertwined here.

The night in Saigon is not as bright as in Shanghai or Nanjing, under the dim street lamps, Li Zixu walks carefully, and occasionally when he encounters Annan patrols, he will cast a disdainful gaze in a suit and leather shoes, and this gaze protects him, and those Annan patrols often take the initiative to look away when they see this "decent gentleman".

After a long period of training, Li Zixu Zaoyi developed the habit of increasing vigilance. He followed the address he had left during the day to find a tavern in a dark alley, and before entering the tavern, he looked around, the tavern seemed to be in a dark alley, but it was between a T-junction, and the alley was connected with more than a dozen passages, and in the event of any accident, he had a chance to leave safely.

Recruiting informants abroad is not an easy task, although French Central and South Africa is not a hostile country, but it is still necessary to be cautious, especially when the Vietnamese cannot understand why China does not help the Russians, and hostility will always arise inadvertently, as he himself advocated, many Southeast Asians now think that "the original is fighting for the whole of Asia".

On the contrary, this has made China's image a little ...... A Vietnamese man in a suit walked over in the alley, like most Vietnamese, with a thin figure and bulging cheekbones, with a typical look of unevolved completion, seeing him walking alone, Li Zixu raised his eyes and looked at the comer, and then took a sip of rice wine casually.

"Mr. Murata!"

Sitting in front of the person who was looking for him during the day, Ruan Mingquan bowed politely and slightly.

"Hello, Ruan Jun!"

Li Zixu was talking to Ruan Mingquan in Chinese language, that is, those French people in central and southern China were temporarily dissatisfied with China that "betrayed the interests of the Asian nation," then when recruiting intelligence agents, they could completely use their own identities, and the recruited people would never go to the Yue Imperial Consulate to verify them, and he would also carefully hide his identity as "intelligence agents."

Ruan Mingquan in front of him is a staff member of the French Central and South Governor's Palace, because he is from a noble background, he can contact the governor, and he holds an important position in the governor, although he is only idle, but he has the opportunity to access many secrets, and this is the reason why Li Zixu recruited him.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting!"

Nguyen Minh Quan apologized, glanced around again, and then took out a stack of papers from his pocket, which he had copied at home based on documents he had come into contact with in the governor's house.

"Mr. Murata, I think that's what you need!"

Pushing the paper forward from the tabletop, Ruan Mingquan's expression looked a little nervous.

Li Zixu did not directly take that information.

"Mr. Ruan, I would have appreciated your help and was willing to give a certain amount of reward to my friends who had helped me!"

When he said this sentence in fluent Mandarin, Li Zixu pressed the right hand of the newspaper and lifted a corner of the folded newspaper, and in the newspaper was a stack of banknotes.

"Mr. Murata, this ......"

The banknotes in the newspaper made Nguyen Minh Quan stunned.

"This is a friend who deserves to be rewarded! And there's some necessary information in it! ”

Li Zixu was referring to the contact information of the two.

"This ......"

Ruan Mingquan hesitated for a moment, and then picked up the newspaper and left the tavern directly, and after he left, Li Zixu picked up the information, paid the bill and left the tavern.

In addition to the use of consulates with immunity, intelligence officers are more willing to hide intelligence stations in the civilian population, which can save a lot of trouble and be more conducive to action, of course, there is a premise for this, that is, when the color of the skin can provide cover, the yellow race in Europe may be very visible, but the agents of the intelligence bureau in the French Indochina Peninsula can easily hide among the Vietnamese.

The information station must be located in a relatively private and convenient place, and the landlord of the information station must be reliable or have some authority in the control of the intelligence bureau, and it is not an easy thing to set up an intelligence station in every place, and the choice can only be made after strict and careful selection.

A few rooms on the second floor of a small Vietnamese hotel on the riverside of Saigon are an intelligence station of the General Intelligence Directorate in Saigon, where Li Zixu is rummaging through information he has received from Nguyen Minh Quan.

"It seems that the French are not ready to let the Russians want Cam Ranh Bay to stay!"

Pinching the information in his hand, Li Zixu frowned, the Russian fleet only arrived in Cam Ranh Bay today, and the French wanted to drive people away!

Although there was a hint of doubt in his heart, he quickly took out the codebook from the secret compartment of the room, translated the telegram into ciphertext, and finally translated the pure number ciphertext into Chinese characters according to the dictionary, and after a few minutes of complicated reorganization, this message seemed to be no different from most Chinese telegrams.

Double encryption is the latest encryption technology researched by the General Intelligence Administration, the double encryption on the surface, in fact, after triple encryption, one is the ciphertext, one is the number, and the last is the Chinese character cryptography, although the triple encryption password seems to be complicated in the past, but compared with the password used in Europe, the password may be translated into almost zero.

To decipher him, you need to first unravel the numbers represented by the hidden characters of Chinese characters, and then you need to unravel the corresponding codes of the numbers, and to decipher the codebooks, all three are indispensable, and this kind of cipher, which took hundreds of thousands of dollars to research, has been improved and has been adopted by the military, foreign affairs, intelligence and other departments.

Perhaps the code-breaking work of the General Directorate of Imperial Intelligence is just beginning now, but at least in its own code, thanks to the complex surnames of Chinese characters, it already has the most complex telegraph code in the world.

A few minutes later, the telegram was handed over to an overseas Chinese business near the hotel through an internal line, and after another ten minutes, an elderly overseas Chinese walked briskly into the Saigon telegraph office.

One of the telegraphers inside looked at a business in Nanjing, and saw that it was a telegram destined for China, and the telegraph operator looked up at the white-haired old man in front of him, who was wearing a new Chinese-style uniform, and was obviously an overseas Chinese.

The message was just a few dozen words, "The price of rice has risen by at least 10 ......percent recently," and it was just a simple business telegram. But it had already been informed that any telegram sent to China or to the present must be checked.

So the telegraph operator gave a look to the policeman stationed here, and the French policeman came over and began to interrogate him in a routine manner, and the reason why it was so cumbersome now was that France was an ally of Russia, and at the request of Russia, in order to prevent him from obtaining information about the Second Pacific Fleet, they would make such a gesture.

"What kind of business is this?" The policeman asked.

"This is a well-known rice importer, and now the new rice in the south has not been harvested, so it needs to import a lot of rice."

"What's on the message?"

In order to reassure him, the old overseas Chinese with a humble tone handed over the message. The policeman agreed to slap the hair and nodded apologetically.

"I beg your understanding, sir, that this is a measure that has to be taken in order to inviolable the neutral status of our country."

A few minutes later, in the rattling telegraph room of the Imperial Post Office in Nanjing, a telegraph operator copied a telegram. A newspaper receiver was preparing to treat it as a normal telegram. An officer who supervised the telegraph room noticed the address.

"Wait!"

He said, then quickly searched a form in the folder.

Moments later, a motorcyclist sped through the streets of Nanjing, which still looked like a large construction site, and sent the telegram to the Imperial Intelligence Headquarters. The telegram was immediately sent up layer by layer, and finally handed over to the secret telecommunications room of the General Intelligence Bureau. The translator in the secret telegraph room first verified the location of the report and verified the sender through the numbers, and then took out the code book from the safe and revealed the code word by word.

It took a few more minutes for the telegram to be delivered to the director's office, and a few minutes later the telegram was divided into two parts, one forwarded to the Admiralty Intelligence Service, and the other was taken directly to the palace by Zhang Jing.

"Your Majesty, France has decided to let the Russian Navy leave Cam Ranh Bay out of neutral status and under pressure from the other side!"

In His Majesty's office, Zhang Jing bowed respectfully and said.

"Leaving Cam Ranh Bay?"

According to the history he learned from the magazine, the Battle of Tsushima that decided the national fortunes of Russia and Russia should not start until 40 days later, could it be said that this was a butterfly effect?

If the Russian fleet leaves Cam Ranh Bay in the next few days, then at most, they will be completely annihilated in the Tsushima Strait in half a month, and once there is no threat from the sea, then they will be able to free up their hands to target themselves, which is by no means the situation they want to see, not to mention that the operation to completely turn the tide of the war has yet to begin, and time is ...... You have to buy time for yourself no matter what.

"Your Majesty, the temporary opening of the Sandu Australian military port to Russia can be exchanged for an appropriate return from the Russians, we need time, and the Russians are also willing to transfer the drawings and technical data of the Borodino-class battleships to our country, and the new dockyard can find out the surname of the Russian Navy warships by maintaining the Russian [***] ship, and ......"

(To be continued)